2020-02-03
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Compliance
Learn to Change
This week Grant talks about the need for change and growth to adapt to the changing world.
2019-12-21
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Data breach notifications don’t need to be scary
Ever since the GDPR was introduced, the subject of data breach notifications has worried a lot of people. How do you write one? What do you need to include? What will the ramifications be? Will it make your customers run for the hills? Will it get you fired?
2019-06-26
SOX and Database Administration – Part 3
Database administrators are typically responsible for the security and availability of financial data. In this article, Robert Sheldon discusses SOX, passed in 2002, that governs financial data of publicly traded companies in the US.
2018-11-15
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DBAs and the ITIL Framework, Part II: Asset Management
See how the ITIL Framework's Asset Management standards make the DBA's job easier. Use the CMDB and DML to keep your data assets under tight control.
2019-05-17 (first published: 2017-11-21)
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IT Compliance and Software Development
What is IT Compliance and is it really necessary for contemporary Agile applications to be constrained by the requirements of compliance? William Brewer argues that if the objective is rapid delivery of applications, then compliance controls must be understood as early as possible in development.
2015-03-11
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SOX compliance checklist: IT security and SQL audits
Get security practices, procedures and documentation to meet Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance. This tip includes checklists to guide SQL DBAs and developers to inspect systems.
2008-06-05
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Adding and Dropping Columns II
I have this table in my SQL Server 2022 database:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[CityList] ( [CityNameID] [int] NOT NULL IDENTITY(1, 1), [CityName] [varchar] (30) , [Country2] [char] (3), [stateprovince2] [char] (2), [Country] [char] (3), [stateprovince] [char] ) ON [PRIMARY] GOI decide to drop the stateprovince2 and country2 columns. What code should I use? See possible answers
